Example sentences of "been [vb pp] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inter-Service friction has been eased over the years by successive steps taken to concentrate greater power in the hands of the Central staffs as more tri-Service experienced officers have become available ; and to bring the Services closer together at every level of command , and in training and operations . |
| 2 | A preheated cupping glass would then have been placed over the wound and the cooling action of the air inside would have produced a vacuum capable of sucking the blood out . |
| 3 | Pocklington 's population rose from 1,502 in 1801 to 2,546 in 1851 but two excellent plans of the town , drawn up by William Watson in 1844 and 1855 , show how little the medieval lay-out had been altered over the years other than by encroachments onto the market place . |
| 4 | Amongst other things , we were always finding used syringes that had been lobbed over the wall . |
| 5 | To these ends , other means have been developed over the years , most assiduously in the three Northern Tier states . |
| 6 | Many such programs have been developed over the years to exploit the computer 's ability to retrieve and/or manipulate large quantities of data . |
| 7 | The nonconformist movement built their first chapel in 1821 , with four having been erected over the years for the Primitive , Congregational , Baptist and Methodist movements , only the latter still regularly meeting . |
| 8 | He had been admonished over the incident , which happened in August 1991 near his home . |
| 9 | A great deal of ink has been spilled over the nature of indirect duties , to which I will return in the next section . |
| 10 | But the German church now supported the rival Alexander , as they had not been consulted over the appointment of Paschal . |
| 11 | It should have been completed over the weekend . |
| 12 | Accordingly , a number of migration theories and general statements have been formulated over the years , as shown in Table 5.1 . |
| 13 | In addition , the SIB " high pressure " regime has been modified over the years . |
| 14 | His superb physical shape has been honed over the years by a practical approach to food and exercise . |
| 15 | He has one of them , the remaining four having been scattered over the planet for security . |
| 16 | That respect has been earned over the space of a 39- year career with the firm which has seen Grants take its Glenfiddich brand and turn it from a regional tipple in the north-east of Scotland into Britain 's and the world 's leading single malt . |
| 17 | About nine that morning a German pathfinder had been reported over the Firth of Forth . |
| 18 | In total the bungalow 's size has probably been quadrupled over the years with various extensions added when needed . |
| 19 | The National Trust is responsible for the care and upkeep and the old wooden gutters have been repaired over the years . |
| 20 | Certain of the services implicit in a wholesaler function , and for which publishers have agreed to pay higher rate of discounts , have been eroded over the years , and we wish to see them reinstated . |
| 21 | This amount had been collected over the winter , with the proceeds of a weekly raffle also being added to the bottle . |
| 22 | I was disappointed that the water-wheel had gone — the kitchen had been built over the pit which had housed it . |
| 23 | ‘ He 'd been slumped over the freezer for some minutes before anyone realised anything was wrong , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , some 730 ‘ cables ’ had been transmitted over the line and so Field and his colleagues had proved that a transoceanic cable was not only feasible , but could also take a great deal of traffic . |
| 25 | And unfortunately settees appeared at the bottom of the you know , just been pushed over the sides and appeared and then they were left . |
| 26 | Significant progress has been made over the years , including the development of microwave FELs in the US at the Naval Research Laboratory , Columbia University , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and the Lawrence Livermore laboratory , the infrared-visible FELs built at Los Alamos , Stanford and Santa Barbara and the storage ring at Orsay , Paris . |
| 27 | Despite the many improvements that have been made over the years , the poor pay of the farm worker therefore continues to reflect the very many constraints which surround his choice of occupation and employer in many rural areas . |
| 28 | It was clearly old , and several additions had obviously been made over the years , although they all blended together easily and harmoniously . |
| 29 | The process was never completed owing to a lack of consensus in a number of important areas and only a few piecemeal changes have been made over the years , most recently the creation of Schools in 1989 . |
| 30 | No 27 in the Historical Arms series , Allied and Enemy Aircraft is a reprint of a rare identification manual published by the French government in 1918 that illustrated 60 aircraft of French , English , American , German , Italian and Belgian origin ( in three-view drawings ) that may have been seen over the trenches during World War One . |